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  1. What's lame about those is that you wear snowblades at the same time. That's like riding a BMX bike with rollerblades on. I rented one of the older ski bikes and it was fun. I built my own and it was even more fun, albeit much much sketchier. Needless to say that within a couple of hours, Ski Bowl decided that they would only allow production ski bikes on the hill. But man was it fun! If anybody's up for some ski biking sometime, I'll cut up some old skis and mount them up on axles for you. It's easy, and I'd be up to try it again! Squid, you can bring your kayak too.

  2. It could be that our sun has an unseen and distant companion (brown dwarf) star that periodically dislodges massive comets from the Oort Cloud.

    I have a rarely seen and distant companion brown star too, and it also periodically dilodges massive things, usually preceded by Oort clouds! hahaha.gifmoon.gif

  3. Of Samoas! I buy at least 4 boxes and hide them in different places to find weeks or months later. Just found a box in my bottom drawer. I love Girl Scout cookies! cheeburga_ron.gif

     

    edited for perverts

  4. I got an amazing box set of Uncle Dave Macon from my girlfriend. The coolest old-time picker around.

    Kelly Joe Phelps, if you like folksy blues. He's coming to Portland in a couple of weeks but I won't be here cry.gif

  5. Isla Negra! Pablo Neruda's house, one of the coolest places I've ever seen. I'll PM you some more places later. Definitely go there, just south of Valparaiso.

  6. That's awesome, can't wait to see the pics. Yeah, I'm from Santiago. Unfortunately my cousin is at my grandma's apt. right now for school, otherwise she'd put you up. It's still up in the air exactly where we're going, but I can't wait. Have fun!

  7. It must be very difficult for you to move. You probably have to hire atleast ten meatstick mover dudes to help you lift your big-ass ego.

     

    But, on the other hand, with all those neutrinos you find everywhere your climbing gear bin can't be all that heavy.

    And you're an dickhead. Congratulations.

  8. It looks really cool. Thanks! I was right by there (Pto Montt and Chiloe) 10 years ago and didn't even hear about it. If I'm in the area in August I'll head there. Still working on whether to go north or south after skiing.

  9. From NWS Website on Hood:

     

    Saturday Night: Snow. Snow accumulation 17 inches. Probability of measurable precipitation 100 percent. Southwest wind 30 mph. Low 31.

     

    Sunday: Snow. Snow accumulation 10 inches. Probability of measurable precipitation 90 percent. West wind 25 mph. High 36.

     

    With warm temps it won't be light, but it'll give a good base! fruit.gif

  10. Yeah, I just read that they're getting involved with the Terri Schiavo case. Don't we have another branch of government for this?

  11. What is so irrelevant about it?

    Baseball is a competitive sport. Taking steroids is an unfair advantage. Smoking a joint when you're climbing for yourself has nothing to do with this. People pay good money to watch a fair baseball game. It's also a problem in just about every other sport. I don't want to buy a ticket to see who's better at getting away with doping, I want to see the better athlete. It's definitely not for Congress to get involved in, though.

  12. Who fucking cares. A lot of you smoke dope, snort a wee bit of the cane and now you are saying roids are not to be used. FUCK YOU! Its individual choice. the_finger.gif

    And the award for totally irrelevant comparison goes to: Sisu!

  13. Climb: Tahoe - Mt. Tallac-NE ridge

     

    Date of Climb: 2/14/2005

     

    Trip Report:

    My friend Jason and another buddy were coming to Portland from Boston for a Cross Country meet, so we figured we should take a ski trip from here. Originally the plan was to drive to Whistler but we decided we'd have better luck with snow in California, so Tahoe it was. After asking around on this board I got a few ideas, but bought the 50 Classic Backcountry Ski Descents in California book to get some ideas on where to go. We flew to Reno and stayed in Tahoe City not knowing any better, so don't ask me for lodging advice. We decided Tallac was the one to ski. It's about a 25 minute drive to the turnoff for Tallac from Tahoe City. A quick steep skin of about a quarter mile up a hill will get you into the basin where the ridge starts up to the right. After that, you'd better hope you have climbing bars because it's pretty much nonstop steep skinning all the way up. We followed a skin track that had been snowed on a bit. The slopes going up looked really good, and there were not tracks outside of the skin track anywhere:

    5238Tallac-med.jpg

    When we got to a flat spot (about 9000' I think), ate lunch, and decided to head down from there because it looked so good:

    5238Tallac2-med.jpg

    Fresh tracks, great snow, about knee deep.

    5238Tallac3-med.jpg

    We went back up, did it again, and called it a day. The next day we decided to do it again, but hit the summit bowl this time. By the time we reached our lunch spot, it was snowing quite a bit. We made the summit after about 4 hours and headed down. The summit bowl was damn good, and well worth the climb.

    5238tallacSummit.jpg

    All in all, a great time. Tickets from PDX were $130 on Southwest, worth every penny. I'm already thinking of going back soon!

     

    Edit: This is my first TR, so any pointers are appreciated, or is this not worth a TR?

     

     

    Gear Notes:

    Skis, skins, avy gear.

  14. You are correct about that...got stood up. god damn it

    Did you tell her your full name? Google is a bitch, eh? Bummer Mike, I just read this whole thread and my advice was going to be to find one running at Forest Park. Too bad it didn't work out, try again. It's just up the road from you, and the best time to go is on a sunny weekday after 5pm. And don't tell them your last name this time yellaf.gif.

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